• News Release

  Wood Mackenzie launches Lens Power & Renewables

  • 04 三月 2025

  Wood Mackenzie, the global insight business for renewables, energy, and natural resources, has launched Lens Power & Renewables, a new suite of products with interconnected data, analytics, and insights to navigate the energy transition.

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  South America to add 160 GW of solar PV capacity by 2034

  • 05 三月 2025

  Wood Mackenzie's latest report on the South American solar PV market reveals that the region will add 160 GWdc of solar capacity between 2025 and 2034, driven by diversification efforts, growing power demand, and favourable system economics. The report "South America Solar PV Market Outlook 2025" provides a comprehensive analysis of the region's solar energy landscape, power sector dynamics, 10-year solar PV installation outlook, and policy impacts across key markets.

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  Wood Mackenzie donates solar power system to domestic violence shelter in Puerto Rico

  • 06 三月 2025

  To honor the upcoming International Women’s Day, Wood Mackenzie, in partnership with Let’s Share the Sun and other third parties, recently donated 24 solar panels and 2 batteries of storage to a shelter for victims of domestic violence in Puerto Rico. The fully installed 10.8 kW-DC system and 27.2 kWh battery will provide a significant portion of the shelter’s power needs.

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  Solar adds more new capacity to the grid in 2024 than any energy technology in the past two decades

  • 11 三月 2025

  The United States installed a record-breaking 50 gigawatts (GW) of new solar capacity in 2024, the largest single year of new capacity added to the grid by any energy technology in over two decades. According to the U.S. Solar Market Insight 2024 Year in Review report released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) and Wood Mackenzie, solar and storage account for 84% of all new electric generating capacity added to the grid last year.

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  Energy storage’s meteoric rise breaks another record

  • 19 三月 2025

  The U.S. energy storage market set a new record in 2024 with 12.3 gigawatts (GW) of installations across all segments, according to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor report released today by the American Clean Power Association (ACP) and Wood Mackenzie. The report shows a total of 12,314 megawatts (MW) and 37,143 megawatt hours (MWh) deployed, representing increases of 33% and 34% respectively over 2023 numbers.

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  Key energy takeaways from Canada’s 2025 election

  • 01 五月 2025

  Newly elected Prime Minister of Canada, Mark Carney, has made energy a key initiative of the new government, with goals to expand both conventional and clean energy, but decoupling energy flows away from the US may prove to be a challenge, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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  Solar inflation reverses as renewable costs in Asia reach all-time low

  • 29 二月 2024

  Plummeting Utility PV solar costs beat coal power to emerge as the cheapest power source in the region

• News Release

  Batteries & renewables to start displacing gas

  • 26 七月 2017

  A joint research report conducted by Wood Mackenzie and GTM Research assessing generation economics concludes that declining renewables and energy storage costs will increasingly squeeze out gas-fired generation in South Australia as early as 2025.

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  UK car ban will have "massive impact on markets"

  • 26 七月 2017

  We took a closer look at the impact of the UK government’s proposal to ban the sale of new petrol and diesel cars by 2040.

• Comment

  Shenhua and Guodian merger will create world's largest power utility company

  • 06 九月 2017

  On Thursday 3 August China Shenhua and China Guodian Corporation submitted a merger proposal to the State Council. If approved the new company, National Energy Investment Corporation (NEIC), will become the world's largest power utility company (power capacity wise) ahead of EDF and Enel.

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  Majors start shaping strategies to capture a piece of the renewables action

  • 26 九月 2017

  Renewable energy sources are set to radically reshape global energy markets. For the Majors, this poses a threat to legacy oil and gas operations, but is also an opportunity to diversify and future-proof portfolios.

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  US$500 billion worth of investments needed to meet burgeoning power demand

  • 20 九月 2017

  In celebration of ASEAN's 50th anniversary, our APAC gas and power senior analyst, Edi Saputra, reflects on ASEAN's energy developments and what to look out for in the coming years

• News Release

  New dual-credit scheme can elevate Chinese electric vehicles industry

  • 19 一月 2018

  Under heavy subsidies from the government, China's electric vehicles (EV) market has grown exponentially to overtake the United States as the world's largest EV market. However with subsidies fading out in two years' time, the Chinese government and EV manufacturers are pressed for time to sustain the growth momentum in EVs. Wood Mackenzie's latest research reveals that China's proposed dual-credit scheme can reshape the EV market for a more sustainable development beyond the abolishment of subsidies in 2020. The EV penetration rate is projected to hit 17% in 2035 as a result.

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  East Coast gas prices could rise 30 percent in five years

  • 25 五月 2018

  In a recent study, Wood Mackenzie forecasts Australia's East Coast gas prices to rise up to 30 percent to between A$10 and A$13 /per gigajoule by the mid 2020s.

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  Potential gas shortfall in Australia's East Coast starting between 2023 and 2025

  • 22 六月 2018

  In contrast to the 2018 GSOO released today by the AEMO, Wood Mackenzie’s East Coast Gas report identifies a potential gas shortfall between 2023 and 2025, significantly earlier to the GSOO’s estimate of 2030.

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  Alternate battery technology vendor ecosystem growing rapidly

  • 16 八月 2018

  Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables expects new flavours of NMC chemistry, including 532 (5 parts nickel, 3 parts manganese, and 2 parts cobalt) and 622 (6 parts nickel, 2 parts manganese, and 2 parts cobalt) to start gaining market share by 2019.

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  EVs up to 67% less emissions intensive than ICE cars

  • 05 九月 2018

  A typical mid-size electric vehicle (EV) can generate up to 67% lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than a gasoline internal combustion engine (ICE) car on a well-to-wheel basis.

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  What do the US mid-term election results mean for renewable energy?

  • 21 十一月 2018

  The results of this year's U.S. mid-term elections may open a path for higher renewable portfolio standards and gigawatts of solar and wind deployments, according to a new analysis from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

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  US energy storage project pipeline doubles in 2018, nears 33 GW

  • 06 十二月 2018

  The pipeline for energy storage projects in the U.S. has doubled this year, ballooning to 32.9 gigawatts, according to the latest U.S. Energy Storage Monitor from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy Storage Association (ESA). While not all of the projects will come to fruition, this ...

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  Spanish renewables targets undermined by political uncertainty

  • 20 二月 2019

  Today, Wednesday 20th February 2019, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez presented the country’s climate action plan for 2030 to 2050. Commenting on the announcement, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables Senior Research Analyst, Brian Gaylord, said:

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  Universal electricity access investment surpassed $500 million in 2018

  • 04 三月 2019

  Total annual investment in the off-grid energy access sector surpassed $500 million in 2018, according to a new report from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and Energy 4 Impact

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  U.S. energy storage market to double two years running

  • 06 三月 2019

  The U.S. energy storage market nearly doubled in 2018 and is expected to double again in 2019. According to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy Storage Association’s (ESA) freshly released U.S. Energy Storage Monitor 2018 Year-in-Review, 777 megawatt-hours of grid-connected energy st...

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  India commissions first east coast LNG terminal

  • 07 三月 2019

  India's first east coast regas project, Ennore LNG terminal, was commissioned yesterday by Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL). Wood Mackenzie's senior analyst Kaushik Chatterjee shares the significance of this project and how this marks the beginning of India doubling its regas capacity to 56.5 million metric tonnes per annum (mmtpa) by 2025.

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  U.S. solar market adds 10.6 gigawatts of PV in 2018

  • 13 三月 2019

  For the third year in a row, the U.S. solar industry installed double-digit gigawatts (GW) of solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity, with 10.6 GW coming online in 2018. The amount was a 2 percent decrease from 2017. However, the forecast shows the market rebounding in the years ahead, according to the...

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  723GW of new global wind power capacity expected from 2019 to 2028

  • 19 三月 2019

  50.2GW of new wind power was added globally in 2018, a 4% increase YoY and the third highest annual total on record, according to the Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables 'Global Wind Power Market Outlook Update: Q1 2019' report.

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  South Korea could miss 2030 renewables target

  • 27 三月 2019

  South Korea is unlikely to meet its 2030 renewables target, says Wood Mackenzie at a media briefing in Seoul today. According to the consultancy's analysis, renewables will account for about 17% of the country's power mix, a little shy of its original target.

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  Global wind turbine order capacity increased 31% in 2018

  • 27 三月 2019

  Global wind turbine order intake was up 20% in Q4 2018 YoY to nearly 18GW, surpassing 2016's record by 5.4GW, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

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  Saudi Arabia to become largest Middle East wind power market by early 2020s

  • 08 四月 2019

  Saudi Arabia will become a regional heavyweight in wind power by the early 2020s, according to new research by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

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  What would Australia's Labor win mean for the resources, energy and power sectors?

  • 06 五月 2019

  Australia's general election is around the corner and Labor looks set for victory. Labor has announced its commitment to reduce Australia’s carbon emissions by 45% between 2005 and 2030, and to reach net-zero pollution by 2050. It has also proposed changes to existing mechanisms to lower energy and gas prices.

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  Scott Morrison wins 2019 Australia election

  • 20 五月 2019

  Following PM Scott Morrison's win in the recent 2019 Australia election, Wood Mackenzie and Verisk Maplecroft analysts share their thoughts.